Bank robbery suspects had 'large amount of cash' in plain view

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Newark police, with assistance from state and county police, have arrested the two people they believe robbed the TD Bank on East Delaware Avenue Monday afternoon. The arrest was made in Wilmington Manor, about 10 miles from the crime scene.(Photo: Adam Duvernay/The News Journal)Buy Photo

When David May and Justin Thompson got pulled over Monday afternoon in Wilmington Manor, police say they were easy to pick out as the robbers who just sped off from a Newark bank.

That's because there "was a large amount of cash in plain view on the back seat," police said.

Just before 1 p.m. the Newark Police Department rushed to the TD Bank on East Delaware Avenue after learning it had just been robbed, police said.

A man had walked in, given the teller a note demanding money and then fled once he'd gotten it, police said. But police got word the robber might be around Sykes Road.

So when police spotted the blue Acura ATL there, they conducted a traffic stop and May, a 35-year-old from Bear, and Thompson, a 28-year-old from Elkton, Maryland, were arrested and charged with robbery and conspiracy, police said.

They were committed to Howard Young Correctional Institution in lieu of $62,000 secured bond.